Provinces, SANA -A military source announced establishing control over new areas in Aleppo countryside after eliminating the remaining gatherings of ISIS terrorists in eight villages to the east of Khanaser town.

A military source said in a statement to SANA that army units established control over Haiyat kabeera, Haiyat Sagheera, Zabad al-Taweeleh, al-Qleah, Heleh, Hakeel and Kherbet al-Mous villages, Dareehem field and al-Bohouth Hill after fierce clashes with ISIS terrorist organization during which scores of terrorists fell dead or wounded while others fled towards al-Raqqa.

Those villages and areas extend 12 kilometers deep and 9 kilometers wide to the east of Khanaser al-Sfeira road to the south east of Aleppo to Sabkhet al-Jaboul , thus expanding the safety zone around the road.

Engineering units dismantled the explosive devices and mines that the terrorists left behind before fleeing to hinder the army’s advance.

Hama

More than 70 Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists were killed and five vehicles equipped with machineguns were destroyed in military operations carried out in the central Hama province.

A military source told SANA that army units clashed at dawn with Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists who infiltrated to the villages of Maan, Tayyebet al-Esm, al-Shaata, Karah and in the surrounding of al-Rai mountain in Souran area to the north of Hama city.

The source clarified that more than 70 terrorists were killed and four vehicles equipped with machineguns were